Nursery World - Childbase Partnership goes ‘climate positive’

Childbase Partnership has announced that it is ‘Climate Positive’ after saving more greenhouse gas emissions than it generates in its 44 nurseries.

Children from Childbase's Rowan Tree Day Nursery collected a week’s worth of plastic containers to highlight the impact on the world’s oceans, and which will be used to make bird feeders and planters PHOTO Childbase

The employee-owned chain received verification from Planet Mark, the external environmental specialists who have been employed to monitor the company’s emissions.

Childbase’s nurseries are also pushing ahead with plans to achieve ‘net zero’ emissions by 2030 and have invested in a United Nations-certified carbon reduction project aimed at supporting colleagues and customers to make more sustainable travel choices.

The Sustainable Travel Challenge, co-ordinated by Furthr, involves short surveys on colleague and customer travel habits, incentivised with Amazon gift token prize draws and trophies for settings recording the most improvement.

Monthly emails are also circulated, providing bespoke advice on sustainable travel switches together with the message that every single ‘green switch’, no matter how small, will have an impact.

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